Other News: Page 94

Senate Tax Plan to End Obamacare Mandate

Senate Republicans have decided to include the repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most people have health insurance into the sprawling tax rewrite, merging the fight over health care with the high-stakes effort to cut taxes. They also have made a calculated gamble to help speed their bill to passage on a party-line […]

Doctors Fear Talk of Obesity Embarrasses Patients

Nearly two-thirds of U.S. physicians say they don’t discuss weight loss with their obese patients for fear of embarrassing them, according to a survey examining barriers to treatment in the obesity epidemic. The ACTION survey, published last week in the journal Obesity, is one of only a few studies to compare perceptions of health care […]

Ex-Pharma Executive Named to Head HHS

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Monday said he will nominate former pharmaceutical executive and industry lobbyist Alex Azar to serve as U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, saying Azar would push to lower the price of medicines. If confirmed, Azar also would take the lead in implementing Trump’s campaign promise to dismantle the […]

Alex-Azar-640×480

600,000 Enroll for Obamacare in First Few Days

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite President Donald Trump’s efforts to take down “Obamacare,” more than 600,000 people signed up for coverage the first week of open enrollment, the government said Thursday. With only four days of data, experts said it’s hard to discern a trend. But definitely the Affordable Care Act doesn’t seem to be collapsing. […]

open with diverse health

Trump: Shooter ‘Deranged’ vs. Experts: It’s Complicated

President Donald Trump blamed the Texas church shooting that left at least 26 dead on mental health problems, but experts say that it’s much more complicated than that. Trump, who’s visiting Japan, spoke about the shooting in a press conference Monday. Read More

texas-church-shooting

House GOP Bill Takes ACA Repeal Off the Table

House Republicans on Monday again rejected President Trump’s push to use their tax bill to repeal a critical piece of the Affordable Care Act, instead making only modest changes to their legislation as they attempt to move it closer to a vote on the House floor. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Tex.) […]

House GOP Might Repeal Health Mandate in Tax Bill

WASHINGTON — Republicans are weighing a repeal of a key tenet of the Obama-era health care law in their tax overhaul as the House’s tax-writing committee begins work on shaping the bill. Speaker Paul Ryan said Sunday Republicans are discussing whether their tax plan should include a repeal of the Obama health law’s requirement that […]

ACA-Individual-Mandate

Outreach Reduced as ACA Enrollment Begins

In preparation for the Affordable Care Act’s latest enrollment season, the Trump administration sent notices about the sign-up options to millions fewer Americans than in past years and deleted themes known to be most effective in motivating consumers to sign up. Emails went in advance only to people with current health-care plans through marketplaces created […]

open-enrollment

Trump to Gut Obamacare Benefit Rules

In the wake of the collapse of Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare, the Trump administration is testing the legal limits of what it can do to reshape — or some would say gut — the Affordable Care Act using, ironically, the regulatory tools the ACA gave the executive branch. The president’s suspension of […]

Power Outage Strains P.R. Healthcare System

Forty days after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, most of the U.S. territory remains without power. Over the weekend, the island’s power company fired a key contractor working to restore electrical service. The cancellation of the $300 million contract with Whitefish Energy, after the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other agencies expressed significant concerns about […]

Trump Vows to Attack Opioid Crisis, Cuts Treatment Options

US President Donald Trump has declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. What that means in practice remains to be seen – possibilities include increased federal funding, inter-agency coordination, and improved rural health services. But one prerequisite to making real progress in stopping the 142 deaths that happen each day in the US from […]

Discrimination Is Bad for Your Health

Most people can acknowledge that discrimination has an insidious effect on the lives of minorities, even when it’s unintentional. Those effects can include being passed over for jobs for which they are qualified or shut out of housing they can afford. And most people are painfully aware of the tensions between African-Americans and police. But […]

Page 94 of 123